Out now at JEPOP with Kal Munis and Brendan Szendro! How do we best characterise regional resentment in England? And which forms of it are politically consequential? 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Place resentment in England: measurement and effects

Despite globalization, geographic attachments remain alive and well and animate the politics of many democracies. While such divides stem partially from the relative proportions of different types ...

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The right takes academia seriously, and is pouring money into neutering it. Would be good to see left wing politicians taking academia equally seriously, and taking action to support it www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘Dialogue is all the rage’: why is the right pouring millions into ‘civil discourse’ initiatives on US campuses?

Universities looking for a fix to relentless controversy are flocking to ‘civility’ initiatives. Critics say these efforts mask a darker project

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Are preferences for authoritarian rule individual predispositions—or can they spread socially? Using field + survey experiments in the Norwegian Armed Forces, we show that openness to strongman rule can spread socially. American Journal of Political Science: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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The increasing popularity of strongman rule in democratic societies underscores the need to explore how authoritarian regime preferences might spread socially. We assess the role of social influence ...

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Hand-drawn maps instead of smartphones? New research involving Dr Wenjie Cai has inspired a Norfolk hotel to encourage guests to slow down, unplug, and explore more mindfully. A great example of research shaping wellbeing, tourism, and digital detox experiences. Read more here: https://orlo.uk/B4re2

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How the day unfolded as thousands of protesters fill city to counter right-wing march

Anti-immigration protesters were hugely outnumbered as thousands of counter protesters took to the streets of Brighton

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4000 people prevent 300 far-right demonstrators from marching in Brighton www.theargus.co.uk/news/2619168...

#AcademicSky Teaching evaluation: "Having office hours...would be beneficial to get clarification on content and to ask questions." Syllabus (p.1): "Office hours Wednesdays 3:00-3:50pm" Me:

Witnessing a Loved One’s Wrongdoing: What Would You Do? @spspnews.bsky.social blog on our recent paper: spsp.org/news/charact... #socialpsyc #PsychSciSky

Do protests change elections? Prior research: "yes, and dramatically so." But is that always true? What about protests in the last few years? Our latest working paper challenges prevailing logic. Our finding: most recent protests have failed to do anything to influence elections.

New paper out in JPSP with @erichehman.bsky.social! We asked: What is the framework underlying our impressions of environments? Our large bottom-up study shows that people pay attention to 4 factors. We’re calling it the Environment Impressions Model: doi.org/10.1037/pspa...

Submissions & registration are open for BPS Social Psychology Section Annual Conference (Social Psychology for the Public) 8-9 Sept 2026, London. We welcome submissions from academics, practitioners, policy makers, and community partners. Submission deadline: 3 May www.bps.org.uk/event/social...

#AcademicSky Local violence ➡️ elevate resident stress (remember: even obvious stuff needs quantifying. And sometimes "obvious" stuff turns out to be wrong). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

🚨 New in Nature Human Behaviour: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Many prior accounts of social media hostility focus on algorithms. With @boralexander.bsky.social, @a-marie-sci.bsky.social & @leapradella.bsky.social, we use data from 30 countries to focus on the role of societal conditions. 🧵1/7

Social media users experience more political hostility in less economically equal and less democratic societies - Nature Human Behaviour

Drawing on survey data from 30 countries, Bor et al. find that online political hostility is higher in more unequal and less democratic societies.

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📄Published Today in Nature: 500 researchers reproduced 100 studies across the social & behavioral sciences to assess their analytical robustness (led by @balazsaczel.bsky.social & @szaszibarnabas.bsky.social). Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Preprint: osf.io/preprints/me... TLDR: 1/11

Not so marvelous news. ~95,000 scientists have left the federal government since the Trump regime took over.

Prominent Climate Scientist Resigns From NASA, Citing Trump’s Attack on Science

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Shame can be good sometimes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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HANNITY: “I left NYC because I would walk into restaurants and see disdain and disgust on people’s faces just because I was in the room.”

🚨Call for papers We invite submissions for the 2nd Workshop for Scholars of Elections, Public Opinion, and Parties (EPOP) based in Northern UK 🏛️ University of York, 8-9 June 2026 Theme: Inequality, Authoritarianism, and the Future of Liberal Democracy More info: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Call for papers- Inequality, Authoritarianism, and the Future of Liberal Democracy

Call for papers: Inequality, Authoritarianism, and the Future of Liberal Democracy University of York, 8-9 June 2026 The workshop, supported by the Elections, Public Opinion and Parties’ (EPOP) Anth...

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New study. We had adults place historical figures on the left-right ideological spectrum. Folks most often place history's villains (Hitler, Stalin, etc) as extreme examples of their opponents. But they place heroes (Jesus, MLK, Lincoln) are on their own team. 1/4 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Acknowledging women in the workplace (and education). The small but meaningful actions of actual empowerment. Thank you, @uniofgreenwich.bsky.social #InternationalWomensDay and every day!

This brilliant study of the Colston statue incident points to a new way of investigating the distinction between 'normative' and 'non-normative' collective action -- not just as an analyst's assumption about public opinion but as argued over by participants themselves.

John Drury@profjohndrury.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Navigating the boundary between ‘normative’ and ‘non-normative’ collective action: A British case study of the removal of a public statue associated with racism bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Navigating the boundary between ‘normative’ and ‘non-normative’ collective action: A British case study of the removal of a public statue associated with racism bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The U.S. is the only place we surveyed where more adults describe the morality of others living in the country as bad than good. Canada is on the opposiite end of the spectrum--they overwhelmingly see their neighbors as morally good pewrsr.ch/4ubNwaM

Great event by @bps-social-psych.bsky.social and @bps-dartp.bsky.social on secondary data and social media! It's online and free 🙂 www.bps.org.uk/event/social...

Social Media and Secondary Data in Psychological and Educational Research: Confronting Key Ethical and Methodological Issues | BPS

This one day online event aims to raise and discuss methodological and ethical issues involved in working with secondary data from social media and public datasets.

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Maybe of interest: The submission guidelines of Psychological Science now demand an explicit statement on measures taken to reduce the risk of AI-generated responses for all online studies! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

The Guardian/UCL have conducted an in-depth study of all of the immigration debates in parliament over a century. It shows sentiment more mixed, more negative today than in the past. (Though also that parliamentary sentiment historically is more pro than con) www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

How rightwing rhetoric has risen sharply in the UK parliament – an exclusive visual analysis

In the past five years, MPs’ attitudes in the House of Commons towards immigration have swung harder to the right than at almost any other time in the last century

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#AcademicSky #PrejudiceResearch Netflix doc The Queen of Chess showcases some Grade A sexism to observe. (claims women aren't smart enough, don't have "the personality", to win chess!) But also, male ego-defensiveness par excellence, such as:

How does cinema shape how we think about migration? In my new article I analyse 410 films, documentaries & TV series from 1940–2024 to explain how migration is represented on screen. 🧵 1/3 academic.oup.com/migration/ar...

Inspired by The Battle of Lewisham, Y5 have created these powerful collages linked to Art Activism and historical protests. @artteachjess.bsky.social @sophieleach.bsky.social #PrimaryArt

Last week I had the pleasure to speak at the 2nd International Symposium on Social Legacies of the Games. I presented a social psychological perspective on how to tackle the stigma of disability (and beyond). The discussions with academics, stakeholders and Paralympic athletes were fascinating! 🇮🇹

Greenwich and Kent announce merger to become UK’s first ‘super-university’

Greenwich and Kent announce merger to become UK’s first ‘super-university’

Formal approval given for new university group to operate from August, with both institutions keeping their names The universities of Greenwich and Kent have confirmed they have been given formal approval to merge into the UK’s first “super-university”. The merged entity will be the third-largest higher education institution in the UK, the universities said, and is consulting on being named the London and South East University Group. Continue reading...

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